Talk:International Physics Olympiad

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[edit] Prizes

"The contestants who get more than 90% of the mean value receive first prizes. The contestants who obtain between 78% and 90% receive second prizes. The contestants who obtain between 65% and 78% receive third prizes. The contestants who obtained between 50% and 65% receive commendations called honourable mentions. All other participants receive certificates of participation."

This sounds extremely wrong. Assuming a normal distribution, well over 50% of the competitors would get firsts. Does it not mean the top 10% receive firsts, etc? This would be far more normal for an olympiad. Andymc 19:52, 30 April 2006 (UTC)

I expect the Physics Olympiad is similar to the Chemistry Olympiad - in that, approx 10% of contestants get gold medals, the next 20% silver and the 30% after that get bronze. Gingekerr 11:19, 7 June 2006 (UTC)

I think the distribution of medals stated above is for Asian Physics Olympiad, and by mean value, it refers to the mean value of the top 3 scores. 90 % of this mean value sets the lower bar of Gold Medal. In International Physics Olympiad, they rank the scores and cut the number of gold medallists at around 5% of the number of participants, then the cut off will be the lower bar for a Gold Medal.

[edit] Iran next year?

In the light of recent developments, does anyone know if there will even be an Iran to hold the Olympiad next year? Gingekerr 11:21, 7 June 2006 (UTC)

Should be, at least I'm going there as a member of team Finland. Check http://www.ipho2007.ir --Heikki m 21:20, 8 May 2007 (UTC)